Patent Title: OIL GEL, PRESSURE RESISTANT MATERIAL USING SAME FOR PROTECTING ELECTRONIC DEVICES AND OIL GEL-FORMING AGENT

 Number/Link: WO2018135494  (Japanese)

Applicant/Assignee:  Sec Corp.

Publication date: 26 July 2018

“Gist”: A gel from a paraffinic  oil and a compatible linear PU is used as a pressure resistant material for deep-sea applications

Why it is interesting: The invention relates to a PU-oil gel that is used as a kind of “potting compound” to protect subsea electronics at “abyssal depths” , i.e. at pressures of 5.6 MPa (about 550m deep). The gel is prepared by reacting a hydrophobic diol and a hydrophobic diisocyanate in the presence of 10-50% (w/w) on the total composition of a paraffinic oil. In the examples an OH-ended, saturated polyisoprene is used as diol together with norbornanediisocyanate.

2,5-norbornane diisocyanate